"What can you deduce?" Mycroft asked, interested.
"Nothing." I said, wanting to yell at him to go away.
"and you have no idea what it means?" Mycroft asked.
"None at all." I muttered.
"When you think of something, tell me. You'll find me with Gregory." Mycroft left.
"well, I'm not going to tell you." I muttered when he was out of earshot.
"What's it about?" John asked. I handed him the note, which he proceeded to read to Sherlock.
I got out a quill and some parchment, and wrote a reply.
I'd like to see you try.
I attached it to the owl, and opened the window for it to fly back to the Death Eater.
It was an elaborate dance that we were playing, and both parties knew it. We were goading each other into making the first move, the first attack.
John looked up because the owl's wings caused a draft as it soared out of the window.
"What did you say?" he asked, seeing the letter in the bird's claws.
"I told him that I'd like to see him try." I said.
Sherlock smiled.
John looked worried. "But isn't that just an invitation to come and attack us?"
"No, if he does that then it means that I've won the first part of the battle - the part where we fight for where the battle takes place." I explained.
John still looked confused.
"If it happens on our turf, we have the upper hand. It's been a long time since he's walked these corridors, we can retreat if necessary. And there are other people here if we need back-up."
John nodded, finally understanding.
Sherlock said "can we lay traps, do you think?"
"I don't know. I don't know where or when the fight will be." I replied. "But I do know I need to go to my mind palace."
Sherlock nodded in agreement, and entered his without second thought, presumably to plan a trap or something.
I went up to my dorm before going into my mind palace. Taking a Time Turner out of my trunk, I looked at it, before putting it around my neck. Alabaster had bought it for me the one time I had taken him to Diagon Alley, and if I was to die then I was going to die with it on.
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I was woken from my mind palace by a tapping on the window. I opened it, and the owl flew in. It had a note in its beak, a reply to my note.
The Astronomy tower. Midnight.
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Turn Back Time (Potterlock)
Fanfiction"...I wish we could turn back time, to the good old days..." When Sherlock Holmes and his cousin Henry (Short for Henrietta) meet John Watson on the Hogwarts Express, they don't know the sheer amount of hidden secrets that will come to light. But no...
